The Caibou Clean Water Partnership is Formed :

The Greater Yellowstone Coalition has helped form a new grass roots organization, the Caribou Clean Water Partnership, to actively promote the clean up of phosphate mines in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The Caribou Clean Water Partnership was organized to protect the people, communities, waters, and wildlife affected by phosphate mines from further selenium contamination and to ensure that existing sources of contamination are cleaned up. We are a partnership of individuals, landowners, businesses, and organizations.

In Caribou Country, a region just 75 miles south of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, the clear, cold water that flows from numerous springs provides habitat for many species of wildlife including the unique Yellowstone Cutthroat trout. Residents and visitors to the region enjoy diverse recreation opportunities including camping and fishing. Unfortunately, three operating phosphate mines — and as many as 26 closed mines — seep pollution into the Salt and Blackfoot river basins.  Seventeen mines pose such immediate and serious threats to water, wildlife and human health, they have earned a special “Superfund” designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Visit the new website and join the partnership to help protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

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